You're trippin' breh.
The fact that Nickelodeon focused so heavily on block-programming is what made it so good. They had clear programming blocks designed to do different things and it all led up to Saturday night SNICK.
And how dare you with "wack ass live action shyt"....
The live-action was the MAIN drawing point to the channel. Family gameshows (Double Dare). Competitive gameshows (GUTS). Comedies (Salute Your Shorts). Variety Shows (All That). Sci-Fi (Alex Mack). Horror (Are You Afraid Of The Dark). Borderline surrealism like Pete & Pete. Just too much piff to drop. The thread speaks for itself....
If it's JUST cartoons we are talking about, well maybe CN gets the W. But even that's questionable to me. I'll put Ren & Stimpy, Hey Arnold, Roccos Modern Life, & Doug up against any 4 cartoons from any other network. And I'm not even throwing in shyt like Rugrats, Ahh Real Monsters, etc.
Nick also had a ton of diversity. Girls/Boys. Racial diversity. I understand that it was JUST a channel and therefore money over everything, but looking back, I get a very strong sense that they were actually trying to be socially responsible. Once the Disney channel took off, I felt like BLACK BOYS in particular never really got a foothold in kids-programming again. It was all about young white/white-hispanic girls. Did Disney ever produce a
Kenan & Kel? A
My Brother & Me? A
Cousin Skeeter?
Nick Arcade?
Jett Jackson is the only one I can remember. I'm not sure what these young brothers have nowadays, I hope they have something besides twitter/instagram and the news telling them how worthless the country thinks they are.
And you're missing the strength of nick-at-nite. Yeah, asking kids to watch old ass TV shows might have been a hard pill to swallow, but many of us DID in fact tune in to watch that stuff. I'm personally glad that I got to experience Lucille Ball, Lavern & Shirley, Happy Days, Mary Tyler Moore, Bewitched, I Dream Of Jeannie, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, etc etc etc as a kid/pre-teen in the 90's. That's a lot of classic TV breh. While I was watching classic I Love Lucy skits and learning about the nuance of comedy and comedic timing, you were out here watching....
Space Ghost Coast To Coast....
CN was good for some fukkery here and there, don't get me wrong. But I feel like CN was *just* a network, while Nickelodeon carved out this space as almost as this mixture of network/lifestyle brand/development/education/movement. The fact that you're dissing Nick News, an attempt to teach kids a surface level understanding of some key issues in the world at large, speaks volumes.
There is actually a lot more that could be said about the channel during its height but I've already "written a book" so I'll leave it at that for now.
at a nikka in here pumping up brothers Garcia. The cartoons fell off hard after the original nicktoons. I'm not sayinh all the shyt was wack, there was a lot of filler though.
like they was putting kids on game and shyt.
cypher complete
